CiderPress Features

View files without having to extract them first. Special converters
are provided for several popular file formats.

Extract files and directories, optionally converting them. File type
information and resource forks can be preserved in Windows, using the method
developed for use in NuLib2. It's possible to extract all files from a
GS/OS boot disk to Windows, add them to a new disk image, and then boot that
image in an emulator.

Add files, directories, and disk images.

Convert the contents of a ShrinkIt file archive directly to a ProDOS disk image, and
vice-versa.

Re-compress entries with a different algorithm. All compression
methods defined in the NuFX specification are supported, as well as gzip
"deflate".

Rename entries.

Test entries or whole archives.

Delete entries.

Add, update, and delete comments.

Edit file type, aux type, and access permissions of archived files.

Print file listings.

Copy & paste files between archives and disk images.

It's like having "ShrinkIt for Windows". Viewing and extracting files from Binary II files
(.bny, .bqy), AppleLink Compression Utility archives (.acu), and AppleSingle files is also
supported. ShrinkIt archive access is provided by NufxLib, the library used by the
NuLib2 archive utility since early 2000.
Archives created with NufxLib are nearly identical to those created with GS/ShrinkIt.

The image file format, filesystem, and sector ordering are determined
automatically for most disks. The settings can be overridden if necessary.
Images larger than floppies, such as ProDOS and HFS hard drive partition
images, are fully supported.

With CiderPress you can directly access physical devices on your PC.
For example:

Read and write ProDOS-formatted 720KB and 1.4MB floppy disks. If you
have a SuperDrive or floptical drive connected to your Apple II, you can
transfer files around without needing to use MS-DOS utilities. [Works
for PC-format disks. Does not work with Apple-format 800KB and 1.6MB
disks, nor 140KB 5.25" disks.]

Read and write files on every ProDOS partition of a CFFA card.
4-part and
8-part configurations are automatically detected.

Read files from ProDOS partitions of CD-ROMs. If you have Apple II CD-ROMs
with multiple 32MB ProDOS partitions, CiderPress will find every file on
them.

Read and write files on every partition of an Apple II hard drive. Got an external SCSI drive
connected to your //gs? Plug it into a
SCSI card on a PC and open it.

With the included volume copier, you can also copy partitions or
multi-partition volumes to and from physical media. This allows you to extract partitions
from CFFA cards, CD-ROMs, and hard drives, and use them with an emulator.
Back up your hard drive to a block image file in seconds, and restore the whole drive,
a single partition, or individual files quickly and easily.

All of the above requires appropriate hardware, and some versions of Windows
work better with certain hardware than others. See the Hardware
Compatibility page for details about what you need and what you can expect.

Built-in File Viewer/Converter

The file viewer can convert several formats for easier viewing on modern
systems:

ProDOS text with carriage returns to Windows "CRLF" format.

DOS 3.3 "high ASCII" text to Windows text.

CP/M text converted to Windows format (stops at first Ctrl-Z).

UCSD Pascal editor text to plain text.

UCSD Pascal code to a segmented hex dump.

Applesoft BASIC to text (matches output of "LIST" command), with
or without color syntax highlighting.

Integer BASIC to text (matches output of "LIST" command), with
or without color syntax highlighting.

Apple /// Business BASIC to text (matches output of "LIST" command), with
or without color syntax highlighting.

In addition, any fork of any file can be viewed in its "raw" state
or as a hex dump.

Text and graphics can be cut & pasted from the file viewer to
other applications, or sent directly to your printer. The file converters can be applied when extracting
files as well, allowing you to convert disks full of source code or images
easily. It takes the same amount of effort to convert one AppleWorks
document or one hundred.

Unsupported formats with recognizable extensions, such as ".GIF"
and ".JPG", are displayed in an external viewer when double-clicked.

Disk Image Creation and Conversion

The disk image creation tool allows you to create blank, bootable disk image
for DOS 3.2/3.3, ProDOS, HFS, and Pascal disks. ProDOS volumes can have arbitrary sizes
up to 32MB, and HFS can go up to 2GB. Resize volumes by copying & pasting between them, or use
the one-step disk-to-file-archive and file-to-disk-archive features.

The disk image converter easily converts disk images to any other suitable
format. Use it to add or remove 2MG headers, or convert .PO to .NIB and back
again. Convert your 800K ShrinkIt disk images to and from DiskCopy 4.2.
You can optionally add gzip compression for reduced storage size.

If you have a large collection of images that you want to convert to a
different format, use the bulk image converter to migrate them all in a few easy
steps.

Volume Copier - Copy data to and from Windows volumes, such as CF cards
and floppy disks. Extract ProDOS partitions from CD-ROMs and copy them
to a hard drive partition. Back up your Apple II hard drive directly.

SST Image Merge - Combine SST-generated disk image pairs into .NIB files
without having to run SST in an emulator. Just generate the images on
the Apple II, transfer them to the PC, and let CiderPress do the reassembly
for you.

Cassette Import - Capture your Apple II cassette tape in a WAV file, then
use CiderPress to extract every program it contains. Automatically
identifies file type and length for most programs. It can even decode
some tapes that no longer work on a real Apple II.

Import BASIC from text file - Convert a text listing of an Applesoft
program into a BAS file on a disk image. Handy for converting programs
scanned from hardcopy.

Included as a separate application, Multi-Disk Catalog (MDC)
allows you to generate file listings from hundreds of disk images with only a
few mouse clicks. Just select the images and the automatic format
recognition does the rest.